0.2 This version adds colored vinyl! using the compare command, so again, you have to have imagemagick properly installed, it is not always accurate buy anyways most of the times it works quite well displaying the color most suited for the most prominent color in the cover, added 2 themes for the big mode, Cd and Jewelcase.

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IF YOU HAD THE OLDER VERSION OF THIS THEME INSTALLED, PLEASE DELETE THIS DIRECTORY: ~/.superkaramba/Vinyl BEFORE TRYING THE NEW VERSION, THANKS TO ZeKiller-Whale FOR POINTING OUT THIS ISSUE.
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I want to share this theme I made for personal use, maybe someone finds it useful.

The theme displays the cover and song info for the amarok current track (in 2 modes: default and big, selectable in the right-click menu), it provides some basic controls (previous track, pause, next track and mute), plus a way to change the song's rating, the theme uses utf-8 encoding, thus providing support for non-english characters.

The theme depends on imagemagick, so it has to be installed for the theme to work at all, the theme was made with the mac os x fonts in mind (the one in the screenshots is Lucida Grande, Bold), which are not free, therefore the default font is Sans Serif (this font looks just fine anyways), you can change the font type with the right-click menu, but not the size, as a result of this, some fonts may be very small or very big (again, the default one works fine).

It can display last.fm streams covers, however, for this feature to work properly you have to set the default size for cover previews to 160px in the amarok preferences, otherwise you may get some ugly things.

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The theme needs python bindings for KDE, as it uses the amarok DCOP interface
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..but what make me nuts is that i can see the nice transparent effect like plastic in the middle of the 7inch. > screenshot1
by me its like normal picture over it.

suggestion

Hi, like you superkaramba theme. What I would like is to have a full size LP, i.e. the centre part where the lable is displayed should be much smaller, with a tiny hole in the centre where it fits on the turntable.

What I mean is, I normally play full cd's, not just singles, so therefore I would like to have something that displays a full LP playing.

I would try and change your theme to my needs, but I'm not too good with python & IM.

so, you want 33's instead of 45's? got a big screen eh?

Update issue

Hi, I've been using your theme since a few month, when it was v0.1, it worked perfectly, but I accidentally deleted the theme so I downloaded it again.
I downloaded the v0.2, but it doesn't seem to work anymore on my computer, when the song changes in amaroK it doesn't on the vinyl until I right-click and select reload, additionally sometimes the image doesn't load at all and a transparent square is displayed.

About the new themes the CD color remains black and I can't find where to select the themes for the big mode.

I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3.5.9 and AmaroK 3.5.9.

I'd like to know if there's a way to get the v0.1 back to try if it still works and if you know where the problem could be from.

Re: Update issue

I've noticed some things new : The image doesn't bug anymore, it updates when the album changes, but not the text, still it changes when I click on "Left" (or "Right" or "Top" etc...) on the Vinyl, meaning that it's able to find the infos and to change the display when something changes in amaroK, so I don't understand why the text infos remain the same...

Could you please run the theme from the command line and copy/paste the output here?

Re: Re: Re: Update issue

Ok, I will seem lame but I've tried to launch by command, and the output was about an error in the .superkaramba folder, I've deleted the conf folder and installed again Vinyl, now it works great without bug and with color management.

Output:
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`/home/guillaume/.superkaramba/Vinyl/images/blacks.png': No such file or directory.

I think it was a compatibility error with the config of the older version.
I'm sorry for loosing your time but I hope this will help if someone has the same issue.

Port to Amarok 2

I have decided to update my Amarok Vinyl widget for KDE 4, Amarok 2 and Plasma, as you can imagine this may imply a lot of work and sadly I don't have a lot of time in my hands right now, therefore all I can say is that the update is definitely in its way, but it may take long, so please be patient.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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